Calochortus venustus

Butterfly Mormons tulip ( Calochortus venustus )

The Butterfly Mormons tulip ( Calochortus venustus ) is a species of the genus Mormons tulip ( Calochortus ) in the lily family ( Liliaceae ).

Features

The Butterfly Mormons tulip is a fall - to spring green, perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 10 to 60 centimeters. This Geophyt forms onions as outlasting. At the base of the stem bulbils are found. The basal leaves are withered at flowering time.

One to six (rarely up to ten) flowers are in a racemose inflorescence. The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and threefold. The bloom are 30 to 50 millimeters long and yellow, white, purple in color or dark red. At the base they are mottled dark about most is a second, lighter stain. The nectar gland is hairy square and short.

The flowering period extends from May to July.

Occurrence

The Butterfly Mormons tulip comes in California in grass and woodland, and yellow pine forests on sand at altitude 300-2700 meters.

Documents

• Corner Hardt J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller K. (ed.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8.